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CHARLES E. LINCOLN, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOBSANDUSKEY, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS-[VI SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filedFebruary 4, 1987.

ARTINGALE.

Patent No. 365,694, dated June 28, 1887.

h Serial No.22fi,fi05. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. LINCOLN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Ieunsyl Vania, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Harness-Martingales;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to IO which it appertains to make and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying d rawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in the improvement in harnessmarlingaleshereinafter set forth and explained.

ll/Iyinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 shows a side elevation of my improved harness martingale slide.Fig.2shows a top or plan view of the same. Fig. 3 shows a section ofsame on the line 00 m in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 shows the same on a neck-yokewith the harness-martingale in place thereon. Fig. 2 5 shows a modifiedconstruction of my improved harness martingale-slide.

Like letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

The object of my improvementis to provide a pad or slide for aharness-martingale of such shape that it will partially encircle andrest upon a neck yoke, around which slide the martingale may be placed,and secured there on in such'inauner that the martingale will 5 not comein contact with the neck-yoke and be worn by frictional contacttherewith. To accomplish this result, I make a semicircular body, A, ofmetal or. other suitable material, so that it will fit around ancek-yoke,13, as 40 illustrated in Fig. 4, the ends of the semicircle aa being extended somewhat substantially parallel to each other, theoutside face, 0, of

the body A gradually tapering toward the inner face, 0, so as to formblunt edges at the endscc. Along each edge of the outside face,O, 5 Imake flanges D of sufficient height to form guards for the edges of themartingale E, encircling the body A. Extending from one of the flanges Dto the other I make crossbars F 1* F, the bars F F being preferably nearthe ends a. a, and the bar F near the centor of the curve in the body A,these crossbars being placed far enough from the face 0 of the body A soas to allow the martingale E to be inserted between the bars F F F andthe outside face, (3, of the body A, and thereby be secured and retainedin place thereon.

In Fig. 5 I show a section of a modified constrnction of. my device. Inthis form of c0nstruction the outside of the body A, the flanges D, andcross-bars F F F are the same in all respects as I have hereinbeforedescribed. The inside face, 0, however, is chambered out, so as toreceive a cushion, G, of rubber, leather, or other suitable material,which I secure in place therein by the cars a, near the ends a, and earsI), near the centenof the curved portion of the body A, these cars beingbent inward upon the ends and edges of the cushion G, thereby securingit firmly in place.

I-Iaviugthus described myinvention, its op eration is so obvious thatfurther description thereof is unnecessary. Therefore Vhat I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination, in a harness martingale slide, of a semicircular slide,A, having inwardly-projecting ears a and b, with a resilient lining orcushion,G, therein, substantially as and for the purpose set forth/ Intestimony whereof Iatfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. LINCOLN.

Witnesses:

H. J. OURTZE, JACOB SANDUSKEY.

